---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 296 Soil Health Amendments"
description: "H.B. 296 Soil Health Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 296"
citation: "Utah HB 296 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rulemaking", "Administrative Rulemaking and Procedures", "Agriculture", "Agriculture & Food", "Boards and Committees", "Department of Agriculture and Food", "Food", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ferry, Joel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-02"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bda4c0f-02f4-4f59-bdd1-3e54c8c11edc"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0296.html"
source_hash: "db0a77ec297218d9531e81ff56054e534fb7dbb9514af453d133f81aa0da79ab"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ut"]
---

# Utah HB 296 (2021) — H.B. 296 Soil Health Amendments

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0296S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0296.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **62–3** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ferry, Joel — primary (person)
- Stevenson, Jerry W. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-02-02** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-02-02** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-02-02** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-02-02** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-05** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-02-08** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** House Comm - Held
- **2021-02-12** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2021-02-12** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-12** comm rpt/substituted
- **2021-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-02-17** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2021-02-19** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-19** substituted from # 1 to # 2
- **2021-02-19** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-19** to Senate
- **2021-02-19** received from House
- **2021-02-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2021-02-26** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-01** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-01** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-03** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2021-03-03** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-03** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-03-03** circled
- **2021-03-03** uncircled
- **2021-03-03** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2021-03-03** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-03-03** to House
- **2021-03-04** received from Senate
- **2021-03-04** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-03-05** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-03-05** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-16** Governor Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bda4c0f-02f4-4f59-bdd1-3e54c8c11edc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).